Former Secretary-General of United Nations (UN), Kofi Annan, has commended Delhi government’s flagship Mohalla Clinic project that is aimed at providing free primary healthcare to city residents closer home. Mohalla Clinics have been one of the flagship projects of the AAP government. In particular, you have scaled up the provision of universal free health services, most notably in providing free primary healthcare services through your new Mohalla Clinics. Read: Eight lakh treated in five months at Delhi mohalla clinicsThe memorandum underlined that the Mohalla Clinics may be a good model to scale up UHC in India. “The utilisation of Mohalla Clinics represents a large increase in consumption of cost-effective primary healthcare without people incurring financial costs.

Source: Hindustan Times January 26, 2017 15:47 UTC